I have not had the same problems burning CD/DVDs you've been having.
I've burned lots using my laptop and many using my desktop, other
than the odd coaster I haven't had any issues.
If you are burning disks for backups it may be cheaper more effective
to buy 3 flash drives as backup media and
That DVD age is only valid for pressed DVDs. Burned CDs and DVDs last
for much less.
It might also be a bad batch of DVDs. I have had the occasional
defective spindle.
With the cost of DVD drives these days, I can't imagine that the
quality is there. It would not surprise me if the drive
There is a particular Samsung model of DVD burner that has problems
with Ubuntu. I went through two brand new drives. After all the
troubleshooting and such, it was a link to the specific hardware.
Switched to an LG model and everything worked great. This was about 1
or 2 years ago now
That DVD age is only valid for pressed DVDs. Burned CDs and DVDs last
for much less.
It might also be a bad batch of DVDs. I have had the occasional
defective spindle.
With the cost of DVD drives these days, I can't imagine that the
quality is there. It would not surprise me if the
I recently tried to burn a DVD (this used to work).
I first ran the simulator which indicated that burning
was OK but finalizing failed (what is finalizing anyway?).
I was running Ubuntu 10.10 at the time so I upgraded to
Ubuntu 11.04 and tried again with a different DVD.
Again the finalization
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